During the 20th century the corset was gradually replaced as everyday wear by the brassiere and girdle, but it remained in use in bridal fashions and costume wear into the 21st century.
Poiret was particularly noted for his Neoclassical and Orientalist styles, for advocating the replacement of the corset with the brassiere, and for the introduction of the hobble skirt, a vertical, tight-bottomed style that confined women to mincing steps.
Hughes designed a special brassiere for Russell that would accentuate her assets, though the actress later claimed that she never wore it during filming.
Poiret claimed that he had freed women from the corset, and he did, in fact, help replace it with the brassiere.
He's "a romantic idiot who wants high taxes", according to Labour peer Lord Sewel, although the opinion of a 69-year-old man wearing an orange brassiere while snorting coke off a prostitute's bosom might be considered inadmissible.
The senior MI6 officer, posing as a correspondent for The Times, was arrested in October 1941 after he ventured out onto the streets of the Spanish capital dressed – "down to a brassiere" – as a woman.
You know, I could never afford to buy magazines Those big slick magazines with the brassiere and hair-cream ads.... RN: So I don't care how the hell it's done, just get the cartoon placed.
He rummages around on the top of a table, picks up a green brassiere, and says, "We must do all this stuff, the Wonderbra, the other bra--ah, whatever".
AMERICAN ENCOUNTER about the Somalian writer's discovery of an American brassiere.
In 1974, I moved from Somalia to England on a UNESCO fellowship… AMERICAN ENCOUNTER about the Somalian writer's discovery of an American brassiere.
You may be wondering what the brassiere is doing in this exhibit of the World of Todd Niesle and His Stuff.
